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The Blue Heron Ranch CookbookRecipes and Stories from a Zen Retreat CenterWritten by Nadia Natali, Illustrated by Marica Natali ThompsonPrice: $21.95North Atlantic BooksThe Blue Heron Ranch Cookbook, based on Cooking Off the Grid, also by Nadia Natali, blends 126 tasty, healthful recipes with lively tales of the Natali family’s adventures living close to the land—in the wilds of California’s Los Padres National Forest. Nadia Natali's varied dishes, suitable for any group or family...
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Soul ShiftFinding Where the Dead GoWritten by Mark IrelandPrice: $16.95Frog BooksBusinessman Mark Ireland’s father was Richard Ireland, a deeply spiritual minister and renowned psychic and medium who counted Mae West among his famous clients. While he loved his father, Mark followed a more conventional path in pursuit of mainstream success—until the wrenching death of his youngest son. This unexpected tragedy plunges...
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War LessonsHow I Fought to Be a Hero and Learned That War Is TerrorWritten by John MersonPrice: $15.95Frog BooksMilitary memoirs abound, but few prove to be trustworthy accounts free of spin, bravura, or military glitter. John Merson’s War Lessons takes a rare reflective approach to this pressing issue of our time. In vivid, unadorned prose, he interweaves his own experiences in war with thoughtful assessments of how to prevent...
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The SouvenirA Daughter Discovers Her Father's WarWritten by Louise SteinmanPrice: $15.95North Atlantic BooksLouise Steinman’s American childhood in the fifties was bound by one unequivocal condition: “Never mention the war to your father.” That silence sustained itself until the fateful day Steinman opened an old ammunition box left behind after her parents’ death. In it she discovered nearly 500 letters her father had written...
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Sorcerer's ApprenticeMy Life with Carlos CastanedaWritten by Amy WallacePrice: $18.95Frog BooksSorcerer’s Apprentice opens with Amy Wallace’s first meeting with Carlos Castaneda, the infamous anthropologist-turned-shaman, whose books described meetings with Yaqui Indian spiritual teacher don Juan. Castaneda’s rise was meteoric in the late 1960s as he wrote massive bestsellers, inspired many to experiment with psychedelics, and was dubbed “the Godfather of the...
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In Search of the Warrior Spirit, Fourth EditionTeaching Awareness Disciplines to the Green BeretsWritten by Richard Strozzi-HecklerPrice: $19.95Blue Snake BooksThe war in Iraq has heightened interest in the military mindset and raised questions about whether it’s possible to be a mindful, moral fighter at a time when impersonal, technology based warfare reigns. In Search of the Warrior Spirit confronts this thorny issue with Richard Strozzi-Heckler’s trademark personal, sympathetic style. In...
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Old BearsThe Class of 1956 Reaches its Fiftieth Renunion, Reflecting on the Happy Days and the Unhappy DaysWritten by Dave Newhouse, Foreword by Darryl BrockPrice: $18.95North Atlantic BooksFeeling a bit guilty about his own high-school experience, author Dave Newhouse searched out classmates from his graduating class, the class of 1956 at Menlo-Atherton High School, to find out what happened to them since high school. The stories run the gamut–some are tragic (three people have died since being interviewed)...
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In MemoriamNorman O. BrownEdited by Jerome NeuPrice: $10.00North Atlantic BooksNorman O. Brown was a scholar, poet and revolutionary who made a lasting impression on the sixties generation. His distinctive fusion of Marxism, psychoanalysis and classical literature inspired students across the United States and in Europe to participate in the political upheaval of that time. His books, including Love’s Body and...
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Everyday Hopes, Utopian DreamsReflections on American IdealsWritten by Don JohnsonPrice: $14.95North Atlantic BooksFinding his idealism challenged by the reactionary forces that have proliferated in the post-9/11 world, Don Hanlon Johnson felt a need to recover more sober visions of hope amid the many reasons for despair and cynicism. Everyday Hopes, Utopian Dreams is a bracing backward turn toward the diverse and often conflicting...
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Lessons Out of SchoolFrom Detroit Gangs to New Healing Paradigms - Life Stories of Dr. John E. UpledgerWritten by John E. Upledger, As told to Barry Kaplan and Charles SteinPrice: $24.95North Atlantic BooksJohn Upledger has never avoided risks, whether performing an appendectomy in the eye of a hurricane, as he did while on Coast Guard duty in the 1950s, or telling the story of his life. In Lessons Out of School, he doesn't spare himself or others, or gloss over unpleasant bits. Raised...
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Cutting RemarksInsights and Recollections of a SurgeonWritten by Sidney SchwabPrice: $15.95Frog Books"A surgeon can kill you...and you'll sleep right through it."
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GoodbyeIn Search of Gordon JenkinsWritten by Bruce JenkinsPrice: $25.95Frog BooksGoodbye combines biography with a son's discovery of his father. Gordon Jenkins, one of America's most significant musical figures throughout his 50-year career, collaborated with many of the major talents in postwar pop and jazz. Modest by nature, he rarely spoke of his accomplishments, and there was much to discover when...
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Working the SeaMisadventures, Ghost Stories, and Life Lessons from a Maine LobsterfishermanWritten by Wendell SeaveyPrice: $15.95North Atlantic BooksIn Working the Sea, Wendell Seavey paints a lively portrait of life both on and off the shores of Maine. Journeying from a two-room schoolhouse to the College of the Atlantic, from boatyards to back alleys, and from labor strikes to soul-searching road trips, he is accompanied not only by fisherman...
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My G-String MotherAt Home and Backstage with Gypsy Rose LeeWritten by Erik PremingerPrice: $16.95Frog BooksErik was 12 when Gypsy decided she was through with striptease—'I’m forty-two years old. Too old to be taking my clothes off in front of strangers.' Her endless schemes for staying famous and maintaining their extravagant lifestyle—a best-selling writing career, a musical based on her life, a disastrous attempt to turn...
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Sorcerer's ApprenticeMy Life with Carlos CastanedaWritten by Amy WallacePrice: $26.00Frog BooksAmy Wallace's memoir of her complex relationship with Carlos Castaneda plunges readers deep into the reality of the Castaneda cult and the psychological terrors it perpetrated. With the skill of a master storyteller, Wallace recounts early meetings with Castaneda, shares previously unpublished material straight from the Nagual, and explores the aftermath...
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Animated EarthA Story of Peruvian Whistles and TransformationWritten by Daniel StatnekovPrice: $15.95North Atlantic BooksAt a Pennsylvania country auction, Daniel Statnekov impulsively purchases a Peruvian whistling vessel. His personal and professional life is in shambles, and Daniel wonders what he is doing with his life. All that changes when he blows into the whistle: what might otherwise have been nothing more than another antique on...
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Dreaming in Real TimeThe Shanti Shanti StoryWritten by Linda FormanPrice: $19.95North Atlantic BooksBorn to American Catholic parents, nine-year-old Andrea Forman astounded everyone by demonstrating an inexplicable affinity for understanding ancient Sanskrit texts. Sanskrit scholars verified her accuracy at 95 percent. Not long after, Andrea's younger sister Sara also showed a profound connection with the ancient language. Unable to find a logical explanation for...
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Thich Nhat HanhThe Joy of Full ConsciousnessWritten by Rachel Cartier and Jean-Pierre Cartier, Translated by Joseph RowePrice: $14.95North Atlantic BooksIn 1999 two French journalists spent time with Buddhist Zen master and Vietnamese monk Thich Nhat Hanh at Plum Village, the religious community he founded in southwestern France. This account of their experience shows what daily life is like in this celebrated community and provides a glimpse of the personality and...
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Nelson MandelaThe Early Life of Rolihlahla MandibaWritten by Jean Guiloineau, Translated by Joseph RowePrice: $14.95North Atlantic BooksHere is the story of a boy who was destined for something larger than his tribal village, a boy who could not contain his wonder and curiosity about the world beyond the familiar. The circumstances of Mandela’s youth led him to a perpetual search for what is right and true, in...
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Tenzin GyatsoThe Early Life of the Dalai LamaWritten by Claude Levenson, Translated by Joseph RowePrice: $14.95North Atlantic BooksThis exciting and often intense biography describes the Dalai Lama's rigorous education and his full assumption of power at the age of fifteen following the Chinese invasion in 1950. Though Tibetan tradition holds that the Dalai Lama is a reincarnation of his predecessors, one still marvels at the level of responsibility...
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GypsyMemoirs of America's Most Celebrated StripperWritten by Gypsy Rose Lee, Afterword by Erik PremingerPrice: $18.95Frog BooksGypsy Rose Lee’s memoir became a New York Times bestseller in 1957, inspiring the 1959 hit musical, two movies, and three revivals. Now a fourth, directed by Arthur Laurents and starring Patti LuPone, is lighting up New York, winning top Broadway theatre awards, including three 2008 Tony Awards, as well as...
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Out of BabylonWritten by Richard GrossingerPrice: $18.95Frog BooksRichard Grossinger, an anthropologist by training, a cultural rebel by inclination, and supposed heir apparent to the great, eponymous Catskill resort by birth, presents an intense, personal story in the form of a "nonfiction novel." Grossinger recounts old dreams, lists every college course in which he enrolled, and enumerates the courses...
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New MoonWritten by Richard GrossingerPrice: $25.00Frog BooksThe grandson of famed Catskill resort owner Jennie Grossinger, Richard Grossinger grew up in a Manhattan apartment with his mother, stepfather, brother and sister and attended private schools. In this affecting, gracefully written memoir, Grossinger details his unhappy childhood, which was punctuated by episodes of panic. His mother so resented his...
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GlimpsesThrough Holocaust and LiberationWritten by Benjamin BenderPrice: $15.00North Atlantic BooksHolocaust survivor Bender was 11 years old when the German army invaded his native Poland. He lived in Czestochowa, a backward town steeped in medieval ideas and anti-Semitic attitudes--and thoroughly unprepared for the mechanized terror of the Nazis. When the SS arrived, Bender, his family, and the town's other Jews were...
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